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Where the mountain meets the street: Terayama Shuji. Poet, playwright and avant-garde filmmaker maudit, Terayama Shuji was both infamous and ubiquitous in late 60s and 70s Japan, and remains unforgettable there today. Tony Rayns recalls a legend. Updated: 11 April 2023.
It has been 40 years since Terayama Shuji – who was active in many fields, including haiku, tanka, poetry, novels and plays, and also as a theater company leader, film direction, lyricist and horseracing critic – passed away at the young age of 47.
Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司, Terayama Shūji, December 10, 1935 – May 4, 1983) was a Japanese avant-garde poet, artist, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer.
Jul 21, 2023 · Sadly, less than a decade later in 1983, Shuji Terayama died of kidney disease at the age of 47. New productions of his plays and reprintings of his books have continued ever since in Japan. Still, I can’t get over it: his old theater is now a family restaurant, but you don’t have to dig in the dirt to find the Japanese underground anymore.
Apr 21, 2012 · TERAYAMA SHUJI (1935–1983) famously did everything from offering refuge to runaway kids to providing the Japanese public with horse-racing tips, but he was foremost a poet. The liver disease nephritis, which killed him at a cruelly early age, kept him in hospital for longish periods throughout his life, and so he had all too much time to lie ...
A retrospective of the work of Shūji Terayama during the 19th New Horizons International Film Festival will give you a chance to reassess whether the Japanese avant-garde has stood the test of time and is still capable of shocking audiences.
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In honour of the first anniversary of Ren Hang’s death, we examine the life and work of the experimental Japanese filmmaker Shuji Terayama, whose work inspired the late photographer above anyone else.
